Raw Foods: Featured Formulas for the Flesh

Getting to see clothes tighten around your form is both depressing and infuriating, so you find yourself moving too and fro between dilemma and desperation. You spend money on every solution that you come across and soon you find yourself back to the square one, with a wallet much flatter than the former fat one. But to those with a sustaining spree, one more last time is not just a song and shifting over to a raw food diet have brought better than average results.

However, everything has its own set of pros and cons and so does even a raw food diet; if your digestive system can tolerate the shift, you are in for better days (read: shape) ahead.

As we all know it, heating up food to anything above 116o F ruins the nutritional value, destroys the crucial enzymes and also makes them less prone towards assimilation. Thus, if you cannot at all withstand the idea, cook them to no more than 25% – which is to say – you must reduce the time to 1/4th. Or, in a more simplified manner, if you boil cabbage for 10 minutes, reduce that to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. This is a great plan for those who prefer to become vegetarians. For anemic people, for pregnant ladies and for children – Raw food diet is a strict no-no. However, if you are an earnest meat eater, you need to acquire the taste for rare-done delicacies.

But raw food diet, despite its benefits to supply the body with more energy, being zero on preservatives or synthetic items and its capacity to reduce weight and eliminate the risks of certain diseases (cancer, heart disease, diabetes etc.) due to a high percentage of folic acid, magnesium, fiber and phytochemicals, falls short when it comes to the availability of certain beneficial ingredients like Celtic sea salt, date sugar, Rejuvelac, carob powder, sprouted flour or young coconut milk; besides, a raw food diet also requires a lot of time and commitment. The unavailability of the aforementioned may also cause certain nutritional deficiencies that are found in the spices that are used in cooked food, resulting in an increased risk for osteoporosis and lowered bone mass. Thus, you must also rely on certain food supplements if you are planning shifting to an entirely raw food diet.